Opportunity at the Bottom of the Pyramid: A Faculty Development Program to Prepare the Global Engineer

金字塔底部的机会：培养全球工程师的教师发展计划

• 批准号: 0942338
• 负责人: Philip Weilerstein
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0942338&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Opportunity; Bottom; Pyramid; Faculty; Development

Engineering-Other (59)A growing number of engineering programs have developed innovative educational programs to prepare students to create and deploy low-cost, environmentally and socially beneficial solutions. Often, these programs use experiential approaches to provide students with opportunities to develop technologies that will meet the needs of geographically, culturally and economically diverse customers. This project will provide training and support to faculty who are committed to doing work in this area, but need access to additional resources and a network of people who share a similar vision. The project will develop and offer a workshop to provide faculty with key information and resources to develop, implement, and enhance programs that focus on designing and commercializing breakthrough technologies that address basic human needs and alleviate environmental problems in an economically and environmentally sustainable way. The project addresses several significant needs in this emerging area of engineering education: 1) a mechanism for faculty to share and learn about best practices in educational innovations; 2) a hands-on opportunity to develop curricula and strategies for implementation based on information and feedback from experienced colleagues; and 3) an evaluation of the impact these activities have on teaching and curriculum, including the successes and challenges of implementing educational innovations in the university and in the field.

越来越多的工程项目开发了创新的教育项目，为学生创造和部署低成本、对环境和社会有益的解决方案做好准备。通常，这些计划使用体验式方法为学生提供开发技术的机会，以满足地理，文化和经济多样化客户的需求。该项目将为致力于在这一领域开展工作的教师提供培训和支持，但他们需要获得额外的资源和拥有类似愿景的人员网络。该项目将开发并提供一个研讨会，为教师提供关键信息和资源，以开发，实施和加强专注于设计和商业化突破性技术的计划，这些技术可以满足人类的基本需求，并以经济和环境可持续的方式缓解环境问题。该项目解决了工程教育这一新兴领域的几个重要需求：1）教师分享和学习教育创新最佳实践的机制; 2）根据经验丰富的同事提供的信息和反馈制定课程和实施策略的实践机会; 3）评估这些活动对教学和课程的影响，包括在大学和实地实施教育创新的成功和挑战。